I'm building WDS (with MDT) servers that will be replacing legacy Symantec Ghost imaging environments.
I really like the "Auto-cast" concept of a revolving multicast. That could really be game-changing.
However, all my servers refuse to go past the 100Mbps seemingly artificial limit. This has been seen on various HP, Dell, and VMWare servers running Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2.
For the most part, the transmission stays pegged at 99.9-100Mbps, occasionally suffering a drop to lower speeds, and then jumping back up.
A Ghostcast on the other hand will jump from 30Mb to 300Mb wildly.
The network is full Gig, all gig ports, and all switches with IGMP(v3) support and snooping set up.
What can I do to unlock full Gig multicast speeds? Even a jump from 100Mb to 500Mb will be a huge jump.
I am multicasting to SSD devices and modern machines- I do not believe that disk I/O on the target device is a problem. Server I/O is on a RAID 5 or greater.
Thanks for any help...!